Mining

Software & analytics company Palantir has announced that they will be accepting Bitcoin as a payment method. Palantir will also consider purchasing Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to store on their balance sheet. Thiel Bets Big on Bitcoin Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Palantir (and, notably, PayPal), has been a long-standing cryptocurrency advocate. The company announced that it now accepts BTC for payments and even considers adding it to its balance sheet. As early as...

QANPlatform – a project that is on a mission of building a quantum-resistant hybrid blockchain protocol, secured investment from various venture capital funds to build a DeFi ecosystem. QAN Successfully Closes a Funding Round of $2.1 Million The question of whether or not existing blockchain-based PoW networks would stand the test of a quantum computer is one that’s been discussed for quite some time. To this date, many believe that a quantum computer is the most serious...

New York is concerned about bitcoin mining. So much, in fact, that a new Senate bill is looking to shut down all mining operations for approximately three years until the state can assess the damage done to the environment through mining. New York Has Taken a Stance Against BTC Mining While it is easy to point the finger at New York right now and accuse it being closed minded, the fact is that this is something that appears to be worrying the entire world, especially...

Chia coin does not require the manufacturing of special-purpose hardware (ASIC) to mine it.Chia Coin price, a new cryptocurrency introduced to offset the disadvantages of Bitcoin mining has dropped by 11.98% in the last 24 hours. The asset was trading at $837 yesterday but has pulled back to a price of $622 per coin. Though the price is still high, the Chia coin is seen to have shed off a lot of its value from a monthly high of $1934.The top three largest cryptocurrencies have also fallen...

Bitcoin Mining wird umweldfeundlich. In diesem Artikel steht warum. Square ein ziemlich schnell wachsendes Finanzunternehmen aus San Francisco. Kein Wunder, Square wurde von Twitter-Gründer Jack Dorsey gegründet. Und Jack Dorsey sowie seine Firma Square sind an der Weiterentwicklung von Bitcoin sehr interessiert und vor kurzem hat Square einen interessanten Bericht publiziert. Und: Square behauptet nämlich, Bitcoin werde nur Erfolgreich,...

Choosing stock of gold mining companies instead of shares of firms investing in bitcoin has caused an underperformance for BNY Mellon’s tech-focused funds. The giant US bank outlined MicroStrategy – the company owning over 90,000 bitcoins – as the biggest missed opportunity. BNY Mellon’s Funds Performance In recent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, America’s oldest bank conceded that preferring to go with stocks of gold mining organizations instead of...

Is it possible to go from being a bitcoin lover to a bitcoin hater? For one German software developer, that is exactly what happened. Moritz Schmidt recently donated more than one million euros to Europe’s Green Party in the hope that they will become powerful enough to ban bitcoin and crypto mining in the future. Schmidt Suddenly Doesn’t Care for BTC Schmidt is a confusing figure in the sense that at one point, he made quite a bit of money earning and trading BTC. He...

Ripple co-creator Chris Larsen believes that unless bitcoin changes itself to be more environmentally friendly, all hope for the world’s largest and most popular digital currency is lost. Chris Larsen: BTC Needs to Change Modules Bitcoin has been taking a lot of guff in recent weeks given that its constant price increases have led to boosts in energy usage for crypto miners. The higher the price of bitcoin goes, the more expensive it becomes to mine and extract. Right...

The Chia Network was designed to be as broad as possible so that miners do not have to purchase more expensive equipment as with Bitcoin and other digital coins. Today XCH tokens are getting listed on Gate.io.Chia Network IOU is getting listed on Gate.io with trading starting on Apr.30, 2021, 07:00 UTC. The Gate.io team noted that Chia tokens (XCH) are not yet transferable as it is still in the pre-minting phase. All Chia tokens circulating are pre-deposit from miners which are backed by...

If we thought bitcoin was doing poorly before, we are having to redefine our ideas. It looks like the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has fallen below the $50,000 mark and at the time of writing, is trading for just over $49,000. Bitcoin Is Suffering Harder Than It Has in a While This marks a $5,000 drop for the asset in just the past 24 hours and a fall of more than $15,000 for the currency over the past two weeks. The currency appears to be dipping...